Cloacal bacterial diversity increases with multiple mates: evidence of sexual transmission in female common lizards.
Sexually transmitted diseases have often been suggested as a potential cost of multiple mating and as playing a major role in the evolution of mating systems. Yet there is little empirical data relating mating strategies to sexually transmitted microorganisms in wild populations. We investigated whe...
Main Authors: | Joël White, Murielle Richard, Manuel Massot, Sandrine Meylan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3141023?pdf=render |
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